to the missiles and to the confrontation that sometimes the message gets lost so i think it never hurts to reinforce that a nation is prepared under the right circumstances when conditions are met to have appropriate negotiation. >> reporter: your friend, john mccain, has said every time different administrations negotiate with north korea that they take our money, they take our fuel and then they go ahead and cheat. so why wouldn't that happen again? >> we are determined -- i am determined to try to find if there is a different formula. >> reporter: what does it mean if he does launch a missile or do some other provocative act on this day, the anniversary or in the coming days? >> my hope is there won't be, because that would mean perhaps we're turning a corner and there's a possibility of moving in a better direction. >> reporter: could an envoy make a difference? >> not unless they indicate that they're prepared to move in the directions that everybody has made clear they need to move in. we're not going to go through

the same cycle here. >> there's no sign that north korea would accept the u.s. offer but this is a major shift in the administration's thinking about how to defuse the threat of war. matt? >> andrea mitchell this morning, thank you very much. now let's go to savannah. >> matt, thank you. this is a big week in the fight over gun control here in washington, a vote on a proposal to expand background checks is expected and this morning, there are some signs that support for it is growing, its fate not certain. nbc's capitol hill correspondent kelly o'donnell has the details. >> reporter: good morning, savannah. signs of getting support but i've also learned overnight some confusion among senators who aren't sure about many of the details that are in the bill so they have questions and today the top democrat and republican who crafted this compromise will try to answer those questions. today is about selling it to the undecideds. from sign-carrying protesters for and against new gun laws to

heartbroken parents taking the president's place in his weekly national address. >> our younger son, ben, age 6, was murdered in his first grade classroom. >> reporter: political pressure from all sides. maine republican susan collins up for re-election and under attack from gun rights groups. >> susan collins doesn't sound like a mainer or republican. >> reporter: she revealed her decision first to nbc news. she is a rare republican yet. >> we have bipartisan support. >> reporter: pat toomey and joe manchin have top nra ratings and forged the deal on background checks. >> some will say you didn't go far enough and some say you went too far. >> reporter: they will need many more to make this happen because there are a number of democrats especially those from red states

up for re-election who are not expected to support this. savannah? >> kelly o'donnell on the hill, thank you. let's get to chuck todd, good morning, good to see you. >> good morning. >> this is all, it's very uncertain what's going to happen when this finally gets to a vote. this really depends on these red state democrats that kelly was just talking about. >> it does and there's probably going to be around as many as a dozen republicans who could at least be lobbied to potentially vote for it, but i look at this and it might pass. it might not. it's on an ice edge but where does it go from thhere? >> to the house. >> no vote matters unless they get 70 or 75 votes that's when john boehner says i've got enough political cover i can do this with a mix of republicans and democrats and we're never going to get nowhere close to 70

votes in the senate. >> we've seen emotional lobbying from families of the newtown victims? has that been a game changer? a the gun control opponents are keeping quiet, so in that respect it's changed the conversation a little fbit but, they've got a lot of work to do, to get the house to do everything that's happened this week which will take months and months to convince the house do it, they'll have to live here in washington. >> immigration, this gang of eight compromise on immigration. we saw senator marco rubio out on every sunday show that exists yesterday. is he key to selling this to conservatives? >> it's a gang of one as far as i'm concerned. it's marco rubio and everybody else. everyone else shouldn't be totally overlooked but marco

rubio, the issue of 70 votes in the senate, marco rubio's ability to sell the conservatives to get it to 70 to 75 votes that's how john bainer is able to tell his conservative members i'll do this with a mix of democrats, it's too important to the party nationally. if rubio can't do that in the senate this dies in the house. >> which has a better chance, guns or immigration. >> immigration is going to happen. guns there's no chance, i hate to say it. >> chuck todd thank you very much. guns and immigration are two of the issues i'll be discussing with president obama when i sit down with him later today at the white house and you can see our exclusive interview tomorrow only on "today". we're following a developing story out of iraq. natalie morales is back in new york with more on that. >> good morning to you, and we begin with a highly-coordinated string of bombings across iraq. at least 31 people are dead, just a week before the country's first elections since u.s. troops withdrew back in 2011.

some 200 others were wounded. uncertainty this morning in venezuela after hugo chavez's chosen successor nicolas maduro won the presidential election. his rival is demanding a recount. nbc's mark potter is in caracas with more. >> reporter: nicolas maduro won with 50.66% of the vote. it's unusual because he'd been hand picked by hugo chavez when he died and after winning more than 200,000 votes he went on national tv to claim victory and some of his supporters took to the streets to celebrate although most of the streets in caracas were quiet. h henrique capriles refused to

recognize the election and demanded a full recount. he said maduro was a big loser last night and argued that peace in this country depends on finding the truth about what actually happened in this dramatic election. natalie? >> mark potter in caracas, venezuela, thank you. the faa is ordering special inspections of boeing 737 to replace a possibly defective part on more than 1,000 planes that could cause pilots to lose control of their aircraft. while it is a pressing issue, no planes are being grounded in the roundup. today is april 15th, need i remind you it's the irs fight deadline for individual income tax returns. for more on this and the rest of today's economic news we turn to cnbc's jackie deangelis at the new york stock exchange. >> good morning, natalie. big week on wall street, 30 s&p

companies reporting this week that will set the tone for the market and tax day, it's dreaded by many but some companies like mcdonald's, cinnabon, boston market are trying to ease the pain and playing the hero helps build brand loyalty with customers. >> i guess you can enjoy at least on that front. jackie deangelis, thank you. jenna bush hager gave birth to a baby girl, margaret laura hager, mick named mila, arrived saturday evening weighing in at 6 pounds, 15 ounces and a picture of perfection, there she is with jenna, husband henry and former president george w. bush and wife laura, first-time

parents. we're so happy for them. >> congratulations to everyone. 6 pound 15 ounces, just round that to 7 pounds but i think she was really ready for the pregnancy to be over >> she wasn't ready to go. when we saw her thursday i was asking her is your bag packed, car seat, carrier. she's like i don't have any of that done so she was certainly, i hope she packed on friday i hope. >> and as we congratulate savannah the bush family let's congratulate the hager family as well. >> of course. >> this little girl was named for her grandmothers. >> margaret and laura. they're about to dedicate the bush presidential library in a couple of weeks. she wasn't sure her mom would be there in time for the birth but as you see from the pictures, everybody was there and got to meet mila already. good timing, mila. >> we'll talk to her soon. savannah, thanks. mr. roker? >> i predicted it would be a

girl. well, it was 50/50. >> i said boy. >> i said yankee fan. >> i think rangers. we've got first of all a big storm system and look at some of the damage it's caused. unfortunately in washington state, snoqualmie pass, one person dead, one person missing, two injured in two separate avalanches, and then as we move into the dakotas, bismarck, north dakota, picking up over 17 inches of snow, and we've got two major storms today, one over the dakotas, the second one over the rockies and this one over the rockies is going to dump a ton of snow over the next 48 hours, anywhere from a foot to two feet of snow from northern colorado into central wyoming and then as we move along this system, we are going to be looking at another three to six inches, maybe nine inches of snow up through the red river valley and when we come back in the next half hour we're going to explain why that's bad news for flooding.

we're going to get to your local forecast but first this message. ♪ [ male announcer ] it was designed to escape the ordinary. it feels like it can escape gravity. ♪ the 2013 c-class coupe. ♪ starting at $37,800. ♪ good monday morning. i'm meteorologist, christina loren. we have strong winds coming in. wind advisory goes in place at 11:00 a.m. get ready for cool temperatures as well. we're only going to end up in the low 60s. the warmest, across the bay. tomorrow, we will hit the 70s.

breezy. wednesday, through the weekend, the warmup is on. up to 86 degrees by sunday. haatest weather. savannah. the so-called rich list is out this rmorning. an annual report of hedge fund managers that made the most money. it is staggering. lisa myers is here with more on that. we are talking here about the megarich, the biggest most sophisticated players on wall street. street. each of the top four managers earned more than $1 billion last year, but by their standards is only a pretty good year. today, even for the small investor, wall street is at record levels. man at the top of the constitutionalal investors rich list david tepper pulled in $2.2 billion estimated by going all in last year. >> first off before you start. >> oh, gosh. >> a couple of things. not up 24 but 30%.

>> reporter: almost twice as much as the stock market rose overall. >> he was convinced that u.s. equities and made a big bet and made a lot of money on. >> teper is known as middle class and stablets and not long ago he bought this 44 million ocean-front home in the hamptons and tore it down and spent untold millions building a new one. at number two this year raymond dalio who earned an estimated $1.7 billion. number three, steve cohen, $1.4 billion. >> since he started sac he has returned 30% a year on average after fees. it's remarkable. >> reporter: cohen's investor earned half that return last year when a criminal investigation swirled around the man many consider the smartest trader on wall street. cohen denies wrong doing and never been charged with anything. the legal problems don't appear to have impacted his wallet. he paid $150 million for this picasso last year and another

$60 million recently for this ocean-front home. the fourth man to pull in more than a billion, james simons, 1.1 billion and he has been on this list a dozen years, bringing home more than $18 billion. since it's tax day we should note these billions are taxed at a lower rate than most americans pay on their salaries. none of the managers would comment for us. but a spokesman points out, savannah, all give a ton of money to charity. >> that's good. good times still rolling on wall street. lisa myers, thank you very much. now back to matt in new york. >> thank you. it was a masters to remember. history was made last evening when adam scott won a thrilling playoff. nbc kerry sanders is still in augusta this morning. good morning to you, kerry. >> reporter: it was a young 32-year-old adam scott who won the masters. he is the first australian to take a green jacket. so as they say down under, good on you, adam. but it's what happened here on

the 15th hole with tiger woods that still all anyone can talk about. tiger woods hopes to be back next year with this new controversy behind him. >> beautiful. you got to be kidding me! >> reporter: when his ball hit the flag pole and bounced into the drink the rules allow a player to drop a replacement ball where the initial shot was made. all was fine until someone watching on television phoned the rules committee to complain that tiger woods unfairly dropped his ball at least two yards from its original spot. league officials reviewed the tapes and agreed and tiger received a two-shot penalty. >> i actually was very surprised that somebody was actually able to do that. i'm where do they get the number to be able to call in and, you know, report something like that? >> reporter: tiger woods even admitted his error on espn. >> i went back to where i was and i should have took two yards, you know, further back and try to hit my shot another two yards off what i felt like i

hit it. >> reporter: before and after photos taken by the augusta chronicle with measure of the divots on the course now suggest the ball drop may have been just inches from the original spot. still, it all caused a huge uproar with many calling for tiger to withdraw from the tournament. tiger woods, who divorced after admitting marital infidelity is now dating olympic skier lindsey vonn. her ex-husband vokjoked on twit he was the caller who called the rules committee. no problem. happy to call in and help. you always have to keep an eye on those cheaters but tiger still has his fans. >> tiger is tiger it. we do what he wants! >> reporter: you might say this was a masters tournament for the ages. with 14-year-old tianlang guan being the youngest ever to compete and 32-year-old adam scott honoring his country to become the first australian to win the tournament in more than half a century. >> the winner is adam scott! >> reporter: if tiger woods had

not been ased that two-stroke penalty he still would not have won the masters. now, one footnote. adam scott was playing with his caddie stevie williams and who did stevie williams prefg cviou caddie for? tiger woods. >> six degrees of separation, kerry. adam scott had such heartbreak at the british open last year. i think a lot of people were rooting him but angel cabrera, how would root against him? >> he hit that last shot that was just hanging on the edge there. >> what do you guys think of the images? do you think he was in the zone or not? tiger? >> you mean in terms of the drop? >> yeah! >> i think it was close but i think his statements that he kind of stepped back on purpose or what is going to have a lot of people talking and whether there was a double standard that he got treatment that another golfer might not have? any way it doesn't matter now. it's all over and adam scott is the masters champion. all right, savannah. >> another twitter controversy goes to bed. all right, guys.

coming up, why nothing may happen if you text 911 in an emergency and what is being done to change that. and michael jackson's daughter paris opens up about her surprising plans for the future. first, this is "today" "on nbc.

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suspect is undergoing a mentally valuation. in san jose, a police officer recovering right now after a burglary suspect hit him with a car near the h.p. pavilion. officers say the suspect was breaking into a car when he was caught in the act by the person he was trying to rip off. that victim chased down the suspect down the street until the suspect jumped into a four-door integra, sped out into the street and hit an officer who was doing traffic control. that officer's leg was broken. the suspect still on the loose. construction on the biggest public works project in silicon valley is history. the biggest pronlgject in histo just kicked off. road work started between lundy and flickering avenue. drivers will notice a temporary lane shift to the south and a reduction in traffic lanes from three down to two lanes in both directions. right now, let's toss it over to mike inouye checking the roads out there.

>> thanks for that note about hosstetter. it has been a problem. it is just going to be a little worse. we are looking toward sunol where the traffic flow is slowing. not a concern as far as visibility. 680 slows through this, po portion of your tri-valley. folks headed down there. that's not unusual. we have good slowing and heavy winds throughout that area. >> we have really fierce winds headed our way. we want to start this live picture. you can see the bay starting to get pretty choppy as the winds pick up. watch out for gusts 50 miles per hour plus sustained winds anywhere between 15-30 miles per hour and a cool day ahead. 50 in santa cre steresa, 52 in jose. getting to the end of the week. a major warmup, 86 degrees by sunday. hope you have a fantastic monday! is it wrong to buy an entire outfit

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♪ wake me up before you go, go who has had a dream of waking up with al roker? well, imagine it no more, america. we are going to send al to the house of one lucky viewer. he'll do the weather there, cook you breakfast, whatever you need in the morning. it's coming up 7:30 on this

monday morning, the 15th of april, 2013, i'm savannah guthrie live in washington. al is there on the plaza getting ready to snuggle with some lucky viewer. matt, you're back in studio 1a. >> i am apparently we know al goes to bed fully clothed which is amazing. savannah, also ahead a rare interview with michael jackson's daughter, paris, what her life is like now nearly four years after the death of her father and what she's thinking about doing with his famous neverland ranch. then what would do you if your child was being bullied? coming up one father's simple gesture that's having an impact on other parents across the country. we'll have their story. but we begin this half hour with new details on the tragic death of a california girl who took her own life after she was allegedly assaulted by a group of her peers. natalie is back with that story. >> good morning, savannah. before she died, 15-year-old audrie potts posted about her

humiliation on facebook. now her parents are set for a wrongful death suit. online 15-year-old audrie potts lives on, a loving daughter but her family says eight days before committing suicide last september audrie was sexually attacked by three boys from her high school in saratoga, california. >> at least one photograph was taken that was distributed to, in audrie's words, the whole school, showing her in a violated, exposed way. >> her last week of life she posted her anguish on facebook. "i was asleep and people did [ expletive ] to me. the whole school knows. my life is like ruined now." her grieving parent also took to the web. ultimately she had not yet acquired the antibiotics to deal with the challenges present for teens in today's society.

on friday police arrested the three boys now facing charges for sexual battery. lawyers for the boys told nbc news, "some of the statements made concerning this case have been greatly exaggerated." while the saratoga student newspaper reports only a handful of students had seen the photo experts say that is too many. >> i think the young people are desensitized to sexual images of each other so to them it's just entertainment and they don't realize what they've done is take a picture of a crime scene. >> reporter: it's not the first time social media has played a part in teens' sexual abuse and suicide. last month two steubenville, ohio, high school football players were found guilty of rape, a case where dozens of text messages and cell phone pictures provided the evidence. and in 2007, 18-year-old tyler clemente a student at rutgers university, took his life after a roommate used a web cam to spy on him during a date with

another man. later this morning, the attorney for audrie's parents say he will file a wrongful death suit against the three teens who were arrested. >> the acts that they did were so heinous, we believe we'll clearly demonstrate that this is what went aud ri e over the edge. >> and the boys are all considered juveniles. they head to court on tuesday. the same day that audrie's parents launch a campaign for audrie's law and tell us "the current laws are not a deterrent for 16 years old. these are not kids. these are young adults who need to face serious consequences for their behavior or these types of sexual assaults will continue." let's head outside for a check of the weather once again. here's al. >> announcer: today's weather is brought to you by universal orlando resort. it's your vacation. just don't take it, mean it. >> we were talking about snow up

through the dakotas and this is bad news for folks in the red river valley where they've had a lot of flooding going on. over the weekend, bismarck, over 17 inches of snow, fargo picking up six inches, hogan up to 16 inches of snow. the red river will see another three to six inches of snow. what does that mean? it means the flood stage for the red river, flood stage is 18 feet. the flood outlook is calling there for a 50% chance that river is going to exceed the flood stage 38 feet at fargo. they've already got 1 million sandbags ready to go because this could be a top five flood of all-time for fargo. that's what's going on in the country. here's meanwhile, we are talking about fierce winds here in the bay area. good morning. meteorologist, christina loren, not a whole lot of cloud cover as the winds are startediing to

pick up. winds will be stronger when the wind advisory goes into effect. that will be at 11:00 a.m. lasting until 9:00 p.m. 62 degrees on the way to livermore. 57, san francisco today. after we get done with the wind, late tuesday into wednesday, the warmup is on. we are going to hit the mid to upper 80s. hope you have a great day. >> that's your latest weather. you very much. michael jackson's now 15-year-old daughter paris is speaking out in a very revealing interview. andrea canning is here with what she's saying. good morning to you. >> good morning. one thing she said really surprised me so we'll see if we're on the same page about that. paris jackson opens up about growing up with dad michael the current state of neverland ranch and whether she wants to follow in her father's famous footsteps. >> daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine. >> reporter: four years after the world heard paris jackson speak for the first time at her father's memorial she's revealing her desire to rebuild her famous childhood home,

neverland ranch. in an interview with "the daily mail" in sunday's "event" magazine, "i think it should be restored to how it used to be so the children who couldn't have a childhood could have fun there." she says, "we all loved him to death. we that good energy where you just didn't want to leave." >> this is the man who was her father, the only father she ever knew and she's sharing her memories and hoping the world remembers the good side of michael jackson. >> reporter: she sheds light on the bizarre images of her and her brothers covered with masks and scarves when out in public with michael. "he was very protective. he didn't want anyone to see what we looked like, that way he could have what he didn't, which was a normal childhood." though he tried to shield paris from the spotlight he did teach her his craft. "my dad taught me how to dance, and yes he did teach me the moonwalk." on following in her father's

famous footsteps she says "i want to be an actress but just throughout high school. then i want to go to med skical school and be a doctor specializing in heart surgery." for now, paris wants to be a normal teenager, cheerleading with friends, trying out new hairstyles but says it's difficult with constant security. "i'm on a tight leash and i feel if that leash was loosened a little bit i'd have a chance at a normal childhood." >> you hope she keeps on this path where her thoughts are clear, she knows what she wants. >> paris also spoke briefly about rekindling her relationship with her birth mother, debbie rowe, saying they had fun shopping together on her birthday. the article reports paris's grandmother, katherine, was okay a little bit. >> i wonder if the leash loosened by security or would she prefer people stop be curious and leave her alone. >> maybe a little bit of both.

i was surprised by the heart surgeon part. >> actress through high school and wants to go to med school. >> how many people can say they've done that? good for her and good luck. coming up, texting 911, what's being done to give you more options in an emergency? and the unexpected reason why this mom was finally motivated to lose 125 pounds. we'll tell you her story but first, these messages. [ virginia ] i do have a healthy diet... but there are foods that i had no idea had so much acid in them. my dentist said that the acid in fruit, or fruit juice,

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back now at 7:43, americans now use their cell phones to text more than call but if you're in an emergency, texting may not help. nbc's tom costello is at gallaudet university for the deaf, just across town here in washington. tom, good morning to you. >> hi, savannah. good morning to you. on this campus which is mostly for the deaf students almost everybody texts. it's a vital communication tool and if somebody here texted 911 for help, the chances are the text would go unanswered and it's not just here, across much of the country, if you text 911, the help probably isn't coming. >> stay on the phone here with me, okay? >> reporter: it could be any 911 call center in america. >> okay, are you with the patient now? >> reporter: but this one is different. >> okay, ma'am, are you still on the scene? >> i'm sending the paramedics to help you now. >> reporter: in frederick county, maryland, people who need help can text 911

dispatchers and they can text back. >> there could be any number of reasons why they can't speak at the moment, could be the medical event, stroke, something like that, that they can still type. >> reporter: hard to believe but in most of the country today texting 911 isn't possible. in the last three months more than 13,000 texts have been transmitted to 911, but most were never received. very few 911 centers are equipped to accept them, but frederick county is also the home of the maryland school for the deaf and the need seemed obvious. >> especially when it comes to an emergency, time is so important and we didn't have that access ever, so this is huge. >> i thought we were going to die. it was really, really scary. >> reporter: in chicago, 15-year-old nathan lane isn't deaf but while his mom and sister at a coffee shop a robber

came threatening to kill everyone. nathan grabbed her phone and texted her dad. >> don't come back, robber in here, call 911. >> reporter: nathan had the presence of mind to delete the text. >> and right after i texted my dad he came in, threatening to kill us for calling 911, in which case we didn't. >> reporter: but nathan's dad got the message. >> because it was spelled out correctly i did not think it was a prank. >> i was afraid my dad would call us. >> reporter: he called 911 and then sent a one-word message, done. by the time he got back to the coffee shop the police were there, everyone okay. >> i'm hungry. >> i know you're hungry. >> reporter: as for nathan you'd think he'd be rewarded with a cell phone upgrade. he had to surrender his phone to his parents. >> even teenage heroes need to still get good grades and have good attitudes.

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attacking on cam puts earlier this month. he got into an argument with a victim punching him and knocking him down to the ground. he was last seen at bancroft near the south side of hearst gym. let's check out what's happening outside. good morning. good morning to you at home. got a mix of sun and clouds. really strong winds slated to whip up later on today. that's going to clear out the clouds. they are already starting to pick up a little bit. below 13 miles per hour across the bay area. wind advisory in effect. the advisory should be able to expire. temperatures are going to be cold. windchill factor, 62 degrees on the way to gilroy. 57 in san francisco. if you want warmer days, they are just around the corner now. we have a major warmup getting there this weekend. let's talk to mike about your drive. we are looking over here toward 880 where the wind is already shaking the camera a bit. roof top camara cross from the coliseum.

holding steady. earlier crashes have cleared. the map shows you down the east shore freeway, a couple of issues. down past the richmond bridge. the racetrack. one there and another one there. cutting and willow. 680 has been trouble all morning down out of concord and in toward danville. earlier crashes there. back to you. >> thank you very much. we will have another local update in one half hour from now. the "today" show rolls on. here you go little man.

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♪ it's 8:00 now on a monday morning. it's also the 15th the 15th day of april 2013. that makes it tax day, i believe. if you haven't filed your returns, you need to do so today. meanwhile, these people are probably all set with that. they have come to rockefeller plaza so spend their morning

with us and we are happy about that. i'm matt lauer along with al roker. savannah is living in a small box to the side. that is actually washington, d.c. she is there for a good reason. you are going to sit down with the president later. >> our interview is coming at a key time for the president. he se juggling a volatile situation in north korea and several big fights on capitol hill, gun control, immigration, his budget. we will talk to president obama about all of it, and some politics, too. you can see our conversation starting tomorrow only on "today." guys i will be in new york tomorrow and we can have that awkward group hug we have been planning. i haven't seen you in more than a week. >> is a van savannah in the blue room. >> right. >> a mom struggled with her weight until she found something that gave her motivation to lose weight and she lost 125 pounds. she will join us to talk about

what it was that allowed her to do that. >> she looks fantastic. we have bill and giuliana rancic joining us. they are here to update us on how mommy and daddihood is going and update us on their new show on nbc. >> natalie has a check on the headlines. >> good morning, everyone. secretary of state john kerry is wrapping up the six-nation asian tour by offering to hold direct talks with north korea, if that country stops testing nuclear weapons and making war-like threats. in north korea today, the streets of the capital were filled with celebration as the nation marks the birth of its founder kim ill song. the sponsors of a bipartisan measure to expand background checks for gun buyers say the expected vote is too close to call. meantime, key provisions of the new gun law take effect today.

owners must register guns that have been reclassified as assault weapons and bullet magazines can now only hold seven rounds except at competitions and firing ranges. an exciting finish on sunday as adam scott became the first australian golfer to win the masters tournament in augusta, georgia. the aussie took the green jacket by sinking a birdie putt on the second playoff hole defeating cabrera. the popular space mountain over california rides are closed this morning. the theme park shut down the rides this weekend along with the bobsleds after getting safety citation from california state regulators. disney says the closing were voluntary out of an abundance of caution. they were related to an incident in november involving a contractor . the matterhorn reopened on sunday. exciting baby news to share

with you. jenna bush hager gave birth to her first child on saturday night in new york. she was named for her grandmother. she is the first grandchild for george w. bush and wife laura. very exciting news, indeed. a look at what is trending, a look at what has you talking on line. justin bieber had heads shaking after touring the anne frank house in amsterdam where the jewish girl spent two years hiding from the nazis. bieber wrote, she was a great girl. hopefully she would have been a beliebar. >> the avengers won movie of the year and two other prizes at the mtv music awards and parks and recreation star stole the show as he tried to make off with

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>> gentlemen already wracking up 58 million you tube hits in the first kweekd weekend. we will see where it goes from there. it is 8:05. now back outside to al, our gentleman with a check of the weather. >> today's weather is brought to you by, the makers of non-drowsy claritin. with claritin you can experience non-drowsy relief throughout allergy season. live claritin clear. we have a whole group of people. this new contest you have to go to today.com and write an essay 250 words or less why i should come to your home and help you wake up with al. you have been talking to the crowd. >> fargo, north dakota. >> let al in on a secret. what are you going to put him to work if he comes to visit you. >> right now shoveling. >> that's right. you have snow.

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to 24 inches of snow the next 48 hours. high surf adviser we. rain in the pacific northwest. look for heavier showers and thunderstorms throughout much of florida. mid-atlantic states. slight risk of storms in the mid mississippi river valley. we had a cute baby over there. oh, there. who's that? >> her name is brandy from west hartford, kth kth. good morning, i'm meteorologist christina loren. we've got some strong winds. winds will pick up even more so as we head throughout the day. 5 to 15 miles per hour sustained gusting to 30 later on today. 20 to 30 miles per hour gusting to 50. so one of those days you want to tie-down loose objects that could get damaged, our lows are coming in pretty chilly. temperatures out there in the 40s. we'll only end up in the 60s. tomorrow more of a breeze by wednesday to thursday, the warm-up is on back to the 80s.

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>> i think look at how far i have come. oh, my goodness. because everybody struggles with weight loss. if anybody has that extra weight, this he know exactly what i'm talking about, it's a struggle. >> reporter: a struggle kristen was determined to overcome. last year as a divorced single mom from st. joseph, missouri, doing some soul searching, her weight had hit a high of 287 pounds, limiting the kind of mom she wanted to be. >> going to amusement park and trying to ride a roller coast we are my son going, i can't do this or not even be able to fit in the seat at all so my son has to ride the roller coaster by himself and it was heartbreaking for me. >> reporter: but like many, she couldn't stick to her diet. >> i would totally, you know, fall off the wagon. >> reporter: at the same time kristen's friend, stephanie, was diagnosed with hodgkins lymphoma she said hwas a wake-up call to lose weight. >> i said i think i'm going to

lose weight and make money for you. >> reporter: the idea was simple, every pound she shed she asked her facebook friends to donate 50 cents to the fund or their favorite charity. >> i pushed that button, she's like okay, here we go. >> she says going public on facebook made her accountable. >> i knew every month that i had to lose weight because if i didn't lose weight i was not making any money for these charities. >> reporter: stephanie is in remission and xwratfgrateful fo kristen's support. >> i hadn't really thanked you in person. it was all that, so. >> you're welcome. it was my pleasure. >> reporter: kristen lost 70 pounds over seven months and she kept going, losing a total of 125 pounds. her son, gary, embraced the change. >> well, i can actually wrap my arms around her. usually it would be like this

and now i can be like this. >> i can do all these wonderful things that i wanted to do as a mom. it feels absolutely amazing. i couldn't -- i couldn't have dreamed it better. >> wow. kristen never set a specific weight loss goal saying she did not want to focus on the scale but the overall goal of rewarding herself and other people. quite a feel-good story this morning. >> it is tamron, thanks very much. kristen is with us this morning. nice to see you. good morning. >> good morning. >> my fun was watching you watch that story, and looking at the images of yourself before and after, and i can see on the expression of your face it's almost hard for to you believe. >> it's absolutely hard. i was looking at that screen and i just couldn't believe, you know, that was my past. that was me. that was the outside of what i looked like but it didn't represent the inside of the way

i feel and so when i look at some of those pictures and some of those memories of my past i think you know, that was me. >> the reason you started doing this in the first place we don't wish on anyone. you had a friend who was sick and you decided to help raise money for stephanie and we are thrilled to say that stephanie is in remission, we hope she's doing well but this other thing you decided to do as a part of this, to go on facebook and all of the sudden as you say, i pushed that button and you're out there. that's a very difficult decision. >> it was extremely hard, especially for somebody who is kind of hidden behind the scenes, ever since i graduated high school, the weight has slowly come on, and the more that it's come on the more i've kind of hidden away from friends, family, the people that would see me or the people that i worked with. >> but this idea of being accountable to others, not only for the money you raised for charity but the fact they're going to watch you and see if you do or don't make progress. >> yes.

the people that would be seeing this page is anybody and everybody that would be accessible to facebook. it is a public page, and anybody can see it and anybody can watch and see how the progress goes for me so me putting my pictures on there was, you know, put me accountable. i was accountable for myself and for the causes. >> you talked about the fact in the piece that you had on occasion quite a few occasions over the past, fallen off the wagon. did you fall off the wagon at all during this process while you were on facebook and raising money for stephanie? >> during the first few months it was really hard to try to adapt to the new lifestyle that i wanted to live in order to lose weight. >> what was the hardest part? >> i think the hardest was part getting rid of all the caffeine. i was such a caffeine person. i liked to eat chocolate and i liked to drink tea and do a lot of things that most people enjoy doing and so i had to kind of wean myself off of all of that, but once i was able to change

that lifestyle i knew it was for the best. >> do you ever worry now about going back? when you look at the before and after picture? you brought something with us as a little bit of a visual prop you can hold those up if you want. these are a pair -- >> you want me to stand up? >> sure. these are a pair of pants you used to wear. when you look at those, kristen, do you ever worry about falling back? >> you know what? i don't because i know this is the person i want to be. i know this is the person that i want to die this way. i want to be a healthy person. i want to continue to inspire others. i want to be healthy and you know, live this way. i don't want to go back to that old lazy, you know, hidden person. that's not me. that's not my personality. i'm much more out in front than that. >> i can see that and congratulations. it's nice to have you here. what a pleasure and our best to stephanie as well. let's go over to natalie. >> matt, thank you. bill and juliana rancik are

adding to their busy schedule co-hosting "ready for love" and from the looks of things they certainly know how to have fun with it. >> if it makes you feel any better juliana made the first move. >> oh, you wish! he wishes! that is the biggest bunch of baloney. >> come on, honey, you can fess up. >> i didn't kiss you for three days. you kept trying to lean in. >> on our second date i tried to kiss her and she threw the cheek at me. >> bill and giuliana, who made the first move? >> i tried to make the first move and i was rejected. >> apparently you got the cheek. >> that was bun of my rules no, kiss for at least three dates. i didn't want to be the kiting bandit so that was my big role. >> you played hard to get and worked out. >> thank you, natalie. >> we'll talk about "ready for love" in a bill. giuliana you've been open about

the battle with breast cancer, the fertility problems and now a baby son at home. how are you doing? >> i'm doing great, 16 months post double mastectomy, and did some tests the other day and everything came out looking great. it's always nerve-racking walking in the doctor's office. when i got the call everything was great -- actually bill takes the call to be that honest. >> it's hard. >> it's scary, you never know what you'll ever hear. bill took the call and everything was fine. >> and little duke of course your pride and joy, now 7 months. tell us about him. >> such a cutie pie, looking more and more like this guy every day. >> he loves to eat, i'll tell you. he eats like a horse. >> does he have teeth yet? >> has two teeth and they are sharp as razors. put your finger near his mouth and he'll snap it off. >> don't always put a green mustache but that was st. patrick's day. bill is a baby hog, he's in

every picture, i'm in none. >> the kid comes with me everywhere, grocery store. >> i'm the same way, i take the pictures. >> there are two pictures of me in the house and they're both blurry so that's the way it is. >> tell me about doing the show "ready for love." you guys are so busy. how do you find time? >> we fell in love with the show instantly so we said we'll make time because it was a new concept and it's really revolutionizing the way these dating shows are now run and it's got a lot of drama. we're predicting two of the three guys get married by the end of the show. >> do you really think so? >> absolutely. >> ben, tim and ernesto. there was a surprise drama? >> the pretty brunette carrie she found out he was in the show and she came back to the show, she comes back and fights for

him. so the question is you know, he has a certain familiarity with her, so does he keep her around, does he try to have something with her or does he kind of -- >> find new love. >> try to find new love and abandon that. lot of people go through that so it will be interesting. >> it did not go well with the other girls. the gloves come off tomorrow night. >> that will make it interesting. bill and giuliana, you guys are like family. you'll be back in our fourth hour with hoda and kathie lee. "ready for love" airs 9:00, 8:00 central time on nbc. back over to matt. what would you do if your child became a target of bullies? "i stand behind my son in the fight against bullying. fight and send a message that bullying needs to stop now." more than 900,000 people have seen it, liked and forwarded and

matthew bent is here along with his son, shiloh. i have three kids under the age of 12. i always thought what would i do if i found out one of those kids was being bullied. had you worried about it? >> i had worried about it. i never knew that the day was going to come that he was going to come home to the dinner table and tell me that but very proud of him for standing up and saying something. >> was it hard to tell your dad that, shiloh, saying i'm having a problem with bullies. >> it was a really hard thing for me to tell my dad because it was like on one side is it really bullying or is it not and i worry about that question and i worry how is it going to end. >> and do you worry if you go out there and your dad does something about it, it's going to make you more of a target for bullying, kids are going to make fun of you. when he came to you and said dad, i know you thought back when i was a kid, meaning you, i got bullied. >> um-hum. >> the advice was turn around

and walk away and ignore it. you were determined not to have that happen. >> exactly. exactly. i wanted him to remember that i was always standing behind him and that i had his back at all times and i was going to make sure if things weren't going to happen the way i thought they would with the administration and police, that we stood up and did something. >> so you posted this picture and it's symbolic. it is not only are you saying it, you are standing right behind your son, and you started to get response pretty quickly, didn't you? >> amazing response. the facebook page has been unbelievable. i've heard from people around the world some amazing stories on the good with people from all around the country, teachers in florida and businesspeople in massachusetts to coaches in oregon and you hear the heartbreaking stories, tens of thousands of e-mails that have poured in, of it happening to their kids, that it's going on

everywhere, and as we sit here today there's kids that are in school right this minute that are dealing with this. >> shiloh what was the response at school? what did your friends say when they heard you and your dad had taken the picture? >> well the first day, what really happened was i went to school, i got into class, people said, "hey, why did your dad put that post up" and some of the people that actually saw it started to explain it and now it's all over my school. >> so are things better for you now? has it lessened the bullying? >> it's lessened the bullying in my school. the only two things that i really have to say is, one, it always will get better, no matter how bad it will get better for sure, and i just have to throw a big shout out to my friends and say thank you because they really helped me get through it. >> i think that's the best way to end it.

shiloh, good luck to you all right. >> and parents, parents please tell your kids that it's okay to come and talk to them. 8:26. i'm laura garcia-cannon. a federal agency investigating the chevron fire in richmond will present its findings this morning. last week the chemical safety boy release add report into the cause of the august fire. investigation concludes corroded piping led to the leak and fire and blames the state's

regulatory agency for not being proactive enough. the board plans to discuss report and safety recommendations at a news conference this morning in emeryville. a public meeting on the findings will be held friday in richmond. time to check that monday morning commute with mike. how are we looking? >> it's a monday. i'm sure a lot of folks aren't quite so happy about being in any back-up or toward the office. there's 880, moving nice place high street. starting to wane off. we have a slow drive 580 through livermore valley, things gumming up around the interchange. moving smoothly through sunol. nothing unexpected. 880 to fremont, the funnel slowing there and northbound to south. laura, back to you. >> good to know. another local news update in half an hour. hope to see you then. is it wrong to buy an entire outfit

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we're back now, 8:30 on a monday morning, it's the 15th day of april, 2013, got a nice

crowd on the plaza, it's a little breezy, a little cool for this time of year, but that's all right, because we have a wonderful guest in the plaza with us this morning, i'm matt lauer along with al roker, natalie morales and a familiar face, mr. bryant gumbel. >> good to see you! mwah! always great to see you. >> he's got an amazing story tomorrow night on hbo that combines the worlds of sports and politics in a great way. >> we have a story of how the continuing revolution is being driven by of all things rabid soccer fans. it's the new thing and they're paying the price for it. 72 of them died in incidents with the police just a year ago so it's fascinating. >> we're going to do that and talk about that and also going to get your take on the masters this weekend, and then you might want to -- >> you're going to be a part of

this brain game here. >> what am i going to play with? >> there is a guy who last time he was here, you'll want to watch out of your possessions, make sure you have your wallet someplace safe. last time he took willie's watch right behind him, didn't even know. >> really? >> he's really good. >> is that why i got drafted? >> because you have a bigger wallet than we do. >> he's not picking pockets this time. >> i don't have a wallet, i'm a rubber band guy. that's it. >> that's good. >> i don't have a wallet. >> we'll explain about the gentleman thief in a little while. a start of the battle rounds tonight on "the voice." that's right, coming up tomorrow here on "today," my visit to the set and our chat is the coaches a dam, blake, shakira and usher. >> a lot to get to but first, mr. roker, a check of the

weather? >> absolutely. let's show what you we've got starting with today, this week, we are looking at below normal temperatures throughout a good portion of the country, heavy snow in the central rockies, above normal temperatures through the south and then the mid part of the week, above normal temperatures in the east, risk of strong storms in the lower mississippi river valley, more snow in the plains, all the way down into the southwest, and then the latter part of the week, wet weather in the eastern third of the country especially the ohio and mississippi river valley, more rain in the pacific northwest, above normal temperatures, along the east coast. i should say the southwestern coast. that monday. good morning. i'm meteorologist christina loren. the jet stream has taken a significant drop to the south. for us that means we're going to see strong winds today, also fair game for a light shower or two as we head throughout the day. sustained wind speeds, 15 to 30 miles an hour, gusting 50 miles an hour from time to time.

above that from the higher elevations, make sure you're ready for that. tie-down objects that could get damaged. only touching in the 60s even in the warmest cities across the bay area. >> and we got a great contest going, go to today.com, submit an essay of 250 words or less and a video if you'd like to find out how to wake up with al. i will come to your home and broadcast from your home and your neighborhood, i don't know if you think that's a good idea or not but you have it. go to today.com like these folks are doing right now and by the way, "wake up with al" happens to be the name of my program on the weather channel weekdays at 5:30 a.m. on the weather channel. let's go to the original weatherman himself, mr. willard scott. >> i'll tell you, we're in florida, and we love florida, but i'll tell you, nothing like arizona. what a spot! and mildred johnson, sun city

west, she is 100 years old. the secret to being happy and living a long life is cats. happy birthday william monagan and he is 100 years old today. he is a great redskins fan and he watches nbc where we know how to spend your money. we have isadore, i love that name, isadore rainey from kennett, missouri, she is 104 years old today and we wish her the happiest birthday in the world and she loves community activities and affairs. she contributes an awful lot. this is alfred pellegrino, makes a great soft drink, is 100 years old today, and he is from edison, new jersey, named after you know who, thomas edison. he was an air force serviceman, and we wish him well, great

service to this country, world war ii. this is gigi gitelson, i love that name, 100 years old today, she's crazy about being around kids. she has kids with her, she's a happy lady. great name, great lady, roberta aker, she is 100 years old, brooklyn, new york, new york, and her favorite thing in life is dunkin' donuts, my kind of woman, put some peanut but thor from smucker's and you've got it made. that's all from sunny florida. >> willard, thanks very much. haven't had a chance to say this in a while but up next bryant gumbel. first this is "today" on nbc. enough about the book, i want to hear about your date.

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they have no idea what it was like before u-verse high speed internet. yeah, you couldn't just stream movies to a device like that. one time, i had to wait half a day to watch a movie. you watched movies?! i was lucky if i could watch a show. show?! man, i was happy to see a sneezing panda clip! trevor, have you eaten today? you sound a little grumpy. [ laughter ] [ male announcer ] connect all your wi-fi-enabled devices with u-verse high speed internet. rethink possible. 8:38 with a good friend, bryant gumbel. he sat in the anchor chair here

for 15 years. since 1995 he's been the host of "real sports with bryant gumbel" kicking off its 19th season just got a peabody award. >> i'm very proud of it, the first sports broadcast to ever be so honored. we have a good bunch of guys. we got a great staff and wonderful group of correspondents, very proud of it. >> you start this season with the story i think marries a lot of your real interest in sports and politics, this group of soccer fans we talked about it outside a second ago, the ultras, so are they soccer fans, political activists, revolutionaries, what are they in. >> a little bit of all concerned. i'll give you the brief version. for years in egyptian society egyptians were not allowed to congregate. the only place they could is soccer games. the ultras became used to working in an organized fashion and number two is combating the police, and so when events went down as you know well in tahrir

square the people leading the charge were the ultraand the revolution is ongoing. >> you brought us a clip from tomorrow night's segment. does it need setup? >> i don't think so. i think we have a journalist, sharif tadus who talks about the role of the ultras and we'll talk with one of the ultras who keeps his identity hidden for obvious reasons. >> this bridge behind us leads directly into the heart of tahrir, and this was the site of one of the fiercest and largest battles on january 28th, 2011, against the police. the ultras and soccer fans were key to that battle because they were on the front lines, they were very organized. the police literally retreated off the streets of cairo. were taking off their uniforms, putting on civilian clothing and hiding. >> the streets around tahrir square was battlefield everywhere. the people were watching us,

dealing with the police. >> so they were learning by example? >> exactly. >> you were teaching by example. >> we broke this rule that the police are the most strong thing in egypt and you cannot mess with them. we broke this rule and this is how the people saw us doing this. >> you mentioned the role in tahrir square at the end of the mubarak regime's days. what are their goals now? >> that's a tough question. they want -- the police remains the oppressive force in egypt, almost 2 million strong and despite the fact mubarak is gone and morsi is in, the police remain pretty much unchanged and unchecked and the police kind of got their revenge against the ultras a year ago, they went to the soccer game in port sayeed and reports came out they locked the exits and after the game, 72 of them were beaten to death, and so the ultras, it's become a blood war now the cops in egypt and revolution is ongoing. >> as an american journalist did you feel safe? i remember when you went over --

>> they all think it's fine, they think i'm egyptian until i open my mouth. boom, it's gone. >> we talked about adam scott the new masters champion, first aussie to have that title. should tiger woods have been disqualified? or withdrawn? >> absolutely not. if he had, everyone would say he gutted a good rule. number one he shouldn't have decued himself but you could sit at home on your couch and say i saw a violation and impact the competition? >> i'm not sure golf will get away with that. it seems to be here to stay. >> can you imagine a guy watching a basketball game hey he traveled. get on the phone? no. that's not going to happen. >> you agreed to subject yourself to something else. >> i didn't agree. you strongarmed me. >> not exactly. we have a segment come up, a brand new series on "national geographic" called "brain games." the gentleman thief who has been

on our show before and he'll have fun with us in a couple of minutes and have some fun with you as well so if you're game we'll give it a shot in a couple of minutes. >> if i'm not? >> we're going to give it a shot anyway. bryant, thanks very much. coming up next, playing some tricks on your minds, but first this is "today" on nbc. [ female announcer ] safeway presents real big deals of the week. or how to keep from driving all over for the best deals. you don't need to run around. safeway gives you real big club card deals each week. this week, a crazy low price on tide, $10.99 for 100 ounces. skip the warehouse. quilted northern is $10.99 for 24 double rolls. and dryer's ice cream is just $2.99.

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♪ the one and only, cheerios seeing is not always believing, at least that is the case on national geographic channel's new series called "brain games." each week the show will trick, sharpen and boggle your mind using an intricate string of con games, optical illusions, brain teasers and hard science. take a look. >> you'll notice there are two blinking dots. question, are the dots alternating or blinking together at the same time? could you have your answer? if you said you're alternating you're like most people and like

most people, you're wrong. surprise, we're actually blinking together. >> jason silva -- we're not going to do well. jason silva is the host of brain games and paul robbins is known as the gentleman thief. good to see you. >> i was on a treadmill the other day. it's like a baseball game. i was on a treadmill and started to see the protos and i got sucked in, i really did because you find yourself believing one thing when something else is true. >> absolutely. the show is really what you see is not always what you get. it's a pop science theory making brain science accessible. the idea is to main stream the brain science. on the one hand the brain is the most complicated object in the universe and it has its built in shortcomings and these brain scientists great the interactive experiments so people at home can play along. >> can you trick it by bypassing the obvious? >> pretty much. >> taking advantage of the obvious. >> right.

in other words once you ask a question with the dots we kind of guess okay, they are in sync. >> there's a lot of experiments like that. we all think we live in a world that we experience as three-dimensional but we take in low resolution 2d images through our eyes and our brain fills it in and creates a 3d reality so we receive incomplete information and our brain fills it in and he exploits that brilliantly in the show. >> boy does he exploit it. let's give us a warmup. you have a riddle. he's one of the smartest guys i've ever met. >> oh, you haven't met many people. >> this shows how your brain wants to fill and complete patterns. so the question is, mary's mother had four daughters, april, may, june and -- >> july. >> wrong. because what happens is your brain is month, mary's mother had four daughters, april, may,

june and -- >> don't be so fast. he thinks quickly. what do we call these tricks, illusions, what are they in. >> they trick the mind because they take advantage of shortcuts, like that one your brain took a shortcut. sometimes you can jump ahead or sometimes you want to stop you from doing the shortcut. the old shell game which is a hustle, if you're watching here, place this as a bet. this is a 100 chip. you can see where the shell is and the pea it. when i love it almost where the pea goes. it's not what you think it would be. >> do this one more time. one more time. we'll be a team. >> don't watch the shells, watch right here and you almost see when it comes to if you see it go across if you're watching where would you say it is. >> is that what you're saying? >> 50/50.

>> bryant says this. >> you became overconfident and that motion is what drew you in, when actually it's over here. >> because you told to us look at that space. >> i didn't tell you. you watched the pea go in between and you assume it's where you saw it. >> you understand how the brain works and exploit it. you've got another one. >> sure. >> this is called follow the ace. >> yes, you can use that with cards or things like that. would you mind coming around the side so you can see closer? you had your wall net your back left pocket? >> i'll get you a wallet, i can afford it. i found a couple back stage. if you're watching something like the cards, card tricks traditionally when magicians do them, they take advantage of a card. push one of those out. in this case instead of it being a card trick, track that card. you put a four here and watching where that is and you can see it's about here. right now your brain starts to make an assumption, somehow that

assumption is wrong and the four is over here. for this one you want to pan back so you can see your face as well. come closer, you see where the four goes. are you right-handed? is this the card on top or is it on the back of that one? >> no. >> jason was mentioned your resolution, it's amazing when you see the cameras you get the answer. >> yes, sort of like liar's poker. >> the secret is velcro. >> again, the series on national geographic, the idea here is you're going to wow people with these stunts and illusions but if they pay attention they're going to learn something about how their brain operates. >> absolutely. we call it lean-in programming. we designed the experiments and the star of the show is really your brain at home. if you play, lean in the show, you have that visceral appreciation of the wow and you're like how does that happen. then it becomes explained so one of the experts will come on board, i'll come on the screen, he comes on the screen and tells

you this is because of intentional blindness or lateral prefrontal cortex goes crisscross. >> that's why i can't putt. >> sounds fascinating. i was hooked from the first promo so way to go. nice to see you.. >> thank you. >> watch, everything's intact. >> the premiere of "brain games" is next monday night on the national geographic channel and up next we're mapping out your work week menu, four budget friendly recipes. first this is "today" on nbc. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] it was designed to escape the ordinary.

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back now at 8:52 with your mapped out weekly meals and the recipes are courtesy of stephanie, the chef from chicago's famed girl and the goat restaurant. stephanie, good morning. >> good morning. >> we'll start with the basic grilled chicken, this is with blueberries and snap peas so kind of a healthy sal lat at the end of a nice long day. >> you can use any meat that you picked up at the store. we're used grilled chicken because everybody has grilled chicken around. this is for monday, today. >> while the chicken is grilling we'll make the salad, snap peas. >> i wanted to celebrate spring because back in chicago it's almost spring. we have snap peas, rad ishz, a little bit of pineapple. you want to think about texture and the blueberries, so a lot of people forget to put blueberries in their savory dishes, simple vinaigrette, lemon juice, shallots and spice. >> easy to make yourself.

>> all we're going to do is place a little chicken breast. >> you let it rest and sit a little bit. >> exactly, get some flavor from the grill but you could bake it as well, slice it up and put a salad on top. >> how great that looks, perfect. wonderful. let's move on to tuesday's meal, now we're making burgers, although these are a little bit different. >> they are. >> they're served with a s chilaquiles. >> we call it our marinara with quotes because it's a play on marinara. >> fennel and onions that have been in there and browning for a while. >> you want to let them let the juices out. we add miso which is salty and different and this is garr rick that's been simmered in a little bit of oil and has that yummy sweetness from the garlic.

>> your mother's sauce. >> we use it and finish it with all sorts of things at the restaurant. you make this at the beginning of the week and keep adding to it. >> you add the tomatoes when that simmers down. >> exactly. now we have a little bit of sauce finished, cooked for about an hour. we'll add in some a little bit of butter, keeping it healthy. we want to add extra flavor and then going to add in tortilla chips. back at the restaurant we make our own. >> that's what makes the chilaquiles. i knew i was going to splatter that on you. >> you did good. once the tortilla starts to soften we get the cheeses. >> that's the burger you cooked up the regular way. >> i thought of it getting warm out and wanted to grill everything. >> the sauce. >> a little bit of the tortilla mix and to add spice. i'm a spice whiz so we added on

chilies. >> looks delicious. over here extra meals, using that same mother sauce, you're now going to make, what is this? >> this has a little bit of ocra and eggplant we mixed in with cashews, putting a little asian flair and i have you taste this before we have chicken and leek soup with fried macaroni to crisp it up. >> chicken left over from earlier. >> with two things we have four meals. >> this is really good. i like your take, stephanie, fantastic. >> you want to try tried macaroni? >> it's really healthy. stephanie, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> by the way you can print out all of these recipes and a complete shopping list on our website today.com. we're back with today's take three but first a look at your local news and your local weather

at 8:56, i'm laura garcia-cannon. the breaking news is on the san mateo bridge. westbound traffic you see the back-up that has now happened because of a crash. lets check in with mike inouye for the latest. >> westbound commute direction. this is indeed a moving picture. westbound lanes we just reopened one lane. this is a back-up at the toll plaza across the flat system. foster city, slow back onto the roadway. lanes were completely empty for 25 minutes. now we're looking finally the start. the map shows the back-up on the sensors. san mateo bridge, avoid that, use dumbarton, both head to peninsula where traffic is normal, 180 south connecting two, avoid san mateo bridge, use barton.

♪ welcome to "today" on this monday morning, april 15th, 2013. it is tax day, if you didn't know that yet, you are in some deep trouble. >> oh, boy. >> it's 9:00 on tax day, time to get moving. inside -- >> we're going to have carmen

wong-ulrich to guide us through taxes if you're a panic. >> i'm willie geist along with al roker and natalie morales. we want to get right to today's take three, because we've got some big news in case you haven't heard in our take one, it is a girl for jenna bush hager. >> yes! >> the "today" show family, little mila, born at 8:43 saturday night to jenna and henry hager. she weighed 6 pounds, 15 ounces, 19 1/4 inches tall. the name comes margaret laura comes from both of the grandmothers and we showed a photograph there, a man in the delivery room during a big sporting event, you have henry and the former president george w. bush holding the baby but while watching the maps masters. first thing's first. >> so true. >> the former president put out a statement "laura and i are thrilled to announce the birth of our grandchild.

jenna and mila are healthy and we are elated." >> fourth for the hagers. >> fantastic, looks like little mila already fits right in there. she was just here with us on thursday and we were talking to her about whether she was ready if she had her bags packed and she was like no, no, no. so i guess saturday she was delivering so i hope she got packed on friday. >> the good news is the baby's coming one way or the other. >> that was a take three on thursday. you could see the look of panic come over her face, what's this go bag, car seat. i have a feeling they worked it out. >> who predicted it would be a go i recall? >> okay, roker. >> it was a coin toss. i wouldn't get too excited. >> i felt good. i went out on a limb. >> what was it that made you say girl? >> her sister and all, she just seemed girl to me. >> seemed girl. >> she's going to be an awesome mom. jenna and henry we are thrilled for you guys and can't wait to meet the ba iny ourselves.

showdown at the masters, adam scott the 32-year-old from australia winning the 77th masters at augusta, georgia, the first australian ever to win that tournament. it was a thrilling finish as most of these sundays at augusta are. he drained that putt right there on the second playoff hole to beat angel cabrera, great show of sportsmanship, two great competitors going at it. the big theme of the weekend a lot of talk about tiger woods. he finished in a tie for fourth place which is pretty darned good for most people but a lot of people expected him -- >> to do better. >> he took a two-stroke penalty, there was controversy. >> about where he placed the ball. >> so the two-stroke penalty hurt him but he didn't play as well as he would have liked to on sunday. >> had the rain to deal with it. >> fourth is pretty darned good. >> i guess for anybody but tiger woods. >> right. last time he won was 2008 i believe? >> 2005 at the masters and his

last majors. it was 2008 so it's been a long drought for him but he is playing well and the 14-year-old kid, tianlang guan finished in 58th place but he made the cut, meaning after friday he was one of the top players and got to play the weekend. >> and got to trophy. >> an eighth grader. >> he doesn't even have a driver's license, couldn't drive home. >> imagine his future, perhaps the next tiger woods there, at least in golf. >> he was the youngest player ever to play in the masters and made the cut. incredible story. >> really great. >> our take three this justin bieber story. he visited the anne frank house in amsterdam on friday, signed the museum's guest book with the following, "truly inspiring to be able to come here. anne was a great girl. hopefully she would have been a beliebe." some are saying it was in poor taste. >> a lot of people say it was in poor taste. >> for a 19-year-old on a friday

night and this was what the museum said to go to the anne frank house in amsterdam. >> and spend an hour. >> wrote something stupid, he would have loved to have had that back probably. >> he probably meant it in a different way, playing on the believer -- look. >> his argument is, you know, he believes she was a fan of pop culture and she paid attention to what was going on at the time and perhaps she would have been one of his fans in this day and age but a lot of people saying veryiness sensitive. >> at this point there's a lot of piling on this kid. >> he's got to grow up and unfortunately he is in the public eye and he's going to make his mistakes in public and everything he does is under the microscope. you got to give him some leeway. lot of people are quick to be critics. >> and by the way it was not the worst thing in the world. let's. you the it in perspective. >> the museum said what's special is a 19-year-old comes to the anne frank house and

spends an hour vuzitying on a friday night. he could be doing other things in amsterdam. he was very interested. >> have you been, by the way? it is the most unbelievable place, so inspirational. >> it's chilling. >> it is. you leave there and you can't believe that this happened not all that long ago. >> absolutely. let's move to our bonus take. al, what's this business how you'll move in with the family for a month and cook, do i have that right? >> not quite. >> change diapers according to some of the people on the plaza. >> that's wishful thinking. contest we're call "wake up with al" which is also the program we do on the weather channel, the contest opens up today and closes wednesday, april 24th. you have to submit a 250 words or less essay why i should come to your neck of the woods to do a live broadcast. >> and a video would be helpful as well, creative video certainly goes a long way. >> so you're in the person's

home. >> we'll be in their home, doing the weather, in their neighborhood, we'll be going through their neighbor's garages, trying to boost cars, whatever we can do. >> something tells me their wake-up theme song is going to be the a team. >> it could be one of many. >> if you want an advantage, play the "a team" theme song. >> do a whole "a team" theme. >> go to the website and check it out. ♪ thank you very much, rules and regulations are at today.com. we are really looking forward to this. it will be a lot of fun. >> you, too, could be part of the "a" team." go ahead, well. >> 1972, for a crime they couldn't pay, they escaped from a maximum security skok kad to the los angeles underground. if you have a problem, if no one else can help, maybe you can hire the a team. >> or al roker in your house. >> never ceases to amaze me every time he nails it. al roker in your home g to today.com. >> scary thought. let's look at the news,

secretary of state john kerry is wrapping up his six-nation asian tour by offering to hold direct talks with north korea if that country stops testing nuclear weapons and making war-like threats. in north korea today the streets of the capital were filled with celebration as the nation marked the 101st anniversary of the birth of its founder kim il-sung. part of the measure gun control vote is too close to call. owners in new york must register guns that have been reclassified as assault weapons and bullet magazines can now only hold seven rounds except at competitions and firing ranges. uncertainty this morning in venezuela after nicolas maduro won the presidential election. his rival is now demanding a recount. stunningly narrow victory for maduro considering that he was hand picked by hugo chavez to be

his successor with maduro taking 50.6% of the vote, rival candidate henriqu capriles is demanding a recount. today is april 15th, the irs filing deadline for individual income tax returns. in a blow to those of us who left the task for the last possible second, well the website for the popular software turbo tax had some intermittent outages on sunday. luckily for procrastinators the site is back up, it is functional today so if you plan to get it done you still have a little bit of time. baseball was a hit at the movie theater this is weekend. the "42" earned more than $27 million to take the top spot. "scary movie 5" was runner up with $15 million, the worst ever for that franchise and animated comedy "the croods" came in third. long before they became regulars on youtube, talented

cats were amazing audiences at the moscow cat theater, it reopened after a year-long renovation. juri the clown performs tricks and skits with more than 100 cats thrills children and helps grownups discover the child in their souls. yeah, my cat can't do any of that. it is ten minutes after the hour. up to date now. >> i've met that group, i was once hosting a show where they appeared. it's impressive but i don't know how to say this, everyone smells a little strange and i'm not talking about the cats. >> i got you. >> you see what i mean? >> i have a next door neighbor murray cats he does some tricks but nothing that impressive. show you what we got as far as your weather is concerned, we are talking about another two big storms going on, look at what we've got first in the rockies, this is a massive storm it is going to dump a ton of snow we're talking about anywhere from 9 to 18 inches of snow north of denver, into central wyoming, and then along

this system, a second storm system is going to bring anywhere from 3 to 9 inches of snow along the red river valley which is bad news for the flood threat. this could be a 50% chance this will be one of the top five floods of all-time in fargo, and the red river valley. that's what's going on in the 9:10 on monday morning. hi, everyone. i'm meteorologist christina loren. live from emeryville, a beautiful day shaping up. winds picking up, they will clear skies. gusty winds, wind risery 11:00 a.m. stands until 9:00 p.m. this evening. 62, cool out there as well places like livermore, 62 for fremont, 67 in san francisco. getting into the next couple of days, we have a major warm-up ahead. we're talking about the 90s as we head through the weekend. hope have you a great day. that's your latest weather. coming up next, last-minute tax tips on this tax day, right after this.

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>> announcer: this portion of "today" is brought to you by walgreens aft the corner of happy and healthy. >> it is tax day as we've been saying and the irs estimates as many as 40% of americans wait until the very last minute to file, if that is you, we have some helpful advice this morning, carmen wong-ulrich is a cnbc personal finance expert. good morning. >> good morning. >> for those who haven't filed should they be in full-on pan ick? >> you got to do something today, you have to do something. if you can't file your full tax form you can file an extension, that's form 4868.

i do it every year. >> online? >> you can do it online as well and it gives you some time, about six months until october 15th to file, then do it as soon as you can but be careful if you owe money you can have an extension to file but you don't have an extension to pay. >> you have to pay today anyway. >> what you can expect to pay, at least in the 90% range. if you don't file there's a failure to file penalty of 5% of what you owe every month, then if you don't pay, there's 0.5% every single month and 60 days late $135 so obviously it pays to pay. >> and if you do file for an extension until the october 15th extension deadline, is there any penalty for that time? >> no, you have to pay today. you have to pay something. if you can't pay the full amount get this, don't charge this on your credit card. i know there's the temptation of i'll put it on a card and pay it off eventually. you'll pay interest on that card and a processing fee of around 2%. the irs is probably the lowest

cost lender around. you can call them up today and find out for a payment plan that makes sense for you and only pay around 3% in interest. >> so they will come one some sort of payment plan for but. >> yes. if you avoid them the gloves are off. you're in trouble. >> make sure you place the call to the irs if you need some help paying. how about if you file an extension, does it make it more likely that you may get audited? are you sort of setting out a red flag? >> not necessarily. >> to the irs, okay. >> that's not what's going to get you in trouble. here's a couple things that will make them look at you more. one is don't forget that folks report that they are paying you, so there's two parts of the equati equation. i paid her this. if you don't report that income and it doesn't match up or the numbers don't match that could trigger an audit. if you make over $200,000, your odds go up. if you make over $1 million your odds go way up and if you're a small business owner or freelancer because there is so much room to make little mistakes or to cheat a little bit with deductions and the irs

knows how much someone in your position say whether it's your job, line of work, your business deducts most often so if you have something wild and crazy, spent thousands of dollars entertaining clients when you really work from home they'll know. >> be careful with those deductions and also you say be careful with if you round up too much that's a red flag. >> or if you round down. say you owe 5125 and you put 5,000 that's a big red flag because that means you're kind of fudging things so make sure your numbers match and add correctly. the irs says the number one mistake people make, they don't add right. >> what are the odds that somebody really gets audited, the average person? >> the average person it's like 1%. it's 1% but it goes way, way, way up and strangely enough way up if you adopt. odds are over 60% but if you have more than $1 million or business that makes more than $10 million your odds are closer to a quarter or 30%. >> keep track of your records

always, have the paperwork handy. >> be neat and if you file online electronically there's less room for error. if you're a paper filer, there's a lot more room to make mistakes. >> is it too late to hire a tax professional today? i imagine they're swamped. >> they're zombies today. today is a bad day to call up someone and say can you do my taxes. you could call someone and say could you do an extension if you can't do it yourself. file the extension and take the time between now and october to call your friends and family, interview a couple of accountants and see who works with people like you. you want someone who is familiar and understand you and want this to be your relationship like your primary care physician someone with you all the time, makes things a lot easier. >> especially in certain trades it's important to have that person be right there with you. >> very much they got to know. >> carmen wong ulrich thank you so much. still to come some of your

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coming up, meghan colarossi is back with advice. one of the questions we want her to weigh in, do you have to invite someone to your party or event like a wedding, say, because they invited you to theirs? >> i think it depends on the event. >> i think a wedding is more intimate. >> which one would you say? >> i'd say yes i guess. >> really? >> let them all come, invit te m them all. >> weigh in to answer that question. >> you didn't ask me. >> it doesn't mean you have to go. >> we'll have your responses coming up. all of the toys you loved as a kid are back and better than ever. >> from the power rangers to pacman we get to play by the decade coming up after your local news and weather.

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photos of her assault were sent by e-mail to students at her school. you can see it here at 11:00. a firefighter has his pager to thank for saving from serious injury. an 88-year-old shot him while responding to his home for a medical emergency. the bullet hit his pager but did not hit his skin. he's now at home recovering from the shock of that incident. in san jose, a police officer recovering from a broken leg after a burglary suspect hit him with a car near the hp pavilion. officers say the suspect was breaking into a car when he was caught in the act by a person he was trying to rip off. the victim chased the person down the street when the suspect jumped into a four-door integra, spun out on the street and hit an officer doing traffic control. we'll have a look at weather and traffic right after this break.

welcome back now. the time is 9:28. we're still watching strong winds and they are strengthening every time i check. watch out getting to the 15

miles per hour range. we're expecting a stronger wind gust to start at 11:00, then they will peak tonight as we head through about 5:00 to 9:00 p.m. keep that in mind. when you see the hot pink, strong wind in the vicinity of 50 miles per hour. those gusts will be strong enough to take down any sort of loose objects in your backyard. make sure you're ready for that. 61 in livermore, 57 in san francisco. your seven-day outlook shows you a warmer end of the week with temperatures climbing into the 80s. we'll have more weather for you coming up. first lets check your drive with mike. >> good morning. let me get you out to the live shot of the san mateo bridge where we still have what looks the same but it's different. the flat section of the highrise moving, cleared after two lanes were stopped for over half an hour, 45 minutes. all lanes flowing in that area. going to get slower at 101 as things get more congested. dumbarton still clear, a good alternative to the south. back to you. >> thanks for joining us.

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>> ooh! >> okay. >> this is the best, man! here we go. >> okay. >> what's up, buddy? >> let's go, man. this can't be the second one. that would be impossible. >> oh! >> the game was for two and tom cruise lost on the second egg and glorious fashion, the game of egg roulette with jimmy fallon. >> that's like college prank. >> last time we saw them they were throwing pitchers of water at each other. strange relationship. i'm willie geist with al roker and natalie morales. coming up, megan colarossi will debate topics like do you have to invite somebody to your party because they invited you? you can get in and twe tweet #teamwillie for yes and #teammegan for no. >> you think people should --

>> i do for the sake of the segment to make the case but i don't. >> i'm with megan. >> what's grabbing your attention online when we reveal the hottest google searches. we're getting revved up for old school toys, bringing back fun childhood memories with games popular with a new generation of kids. i like that, go-kart, too. >> and seniors get to ride them, too. >> oh! al has a check of the weather. >> i'm probably older than joe. >> i was going to say, age check. >> let's show you what's going on for "today" we have a lot of snow in the rockies, we've got showers in the pacific northwest, risk of strong storms in the central mississippi river valley, high surf advisories, windy conditions in southern california. tomorrow that risk of strong storms from texas into oklahoma, wet weather stretching from the northeast on into the mid mississippi river valley, sunny and cool in the pacific northwest, beautiful day down in

texas tomorrow, sunny and hot, nice mild weather through 9:32 on monday morning. good morning, i'm meteorologist christina loren. taking a live look at san francisco. we have a little shake to our camera. you will notice the bay getting choppier as winds are picking up. they will be strong by the end of the day with wind advisory in place until 9:00 p.m. 61, cool day in livermore, 62 in santa teresa, that's it for san jose. 57 meanwhile in san francisco. getting to the end of the week, a major warm-up headed our way. 86 degrees by sunday. >> and that's your latest weather. willie? >> announcer: "today's friendly advice" is brought to you by the delicious creamie taste of coffee-mate. >> time for today's friendly advice. my good friend of 20 years, megan colarossi, from working

out with your mate, is that a good idea to letting your kids glue themselves to an ipad in a restaurant. >> hi, willie, good morning. >> how are you feeling? >> feeling large. >> baby is brewing. >> kicking, ready. >> how far? >> five and a half, five and a quarter. i don't count. at this point, let it brew. i don't want to know when this one's come. >> let me know when it's over. >> let me know when it's -- last time i brought drinks which were a hazard. this time, wasabi peas, pregnancy craving. delicious. like that? hot, spicy. >> ooh, hot. >> your team, your producers back stage loved these. get in here, it's -- >> is that plankton? >> this is like a seaweed flake. >> really? do you really like this? >> it's good for you. algae is good for you and it will get in your teeth. >> what am i a go uppy, i'm not eating that. >> that is a famous one.

>> the pickles and the ice cream. we'll do that. >> you asked about my favorite snack, salt and vinegar chips. peanut butter but you added a healthy element which does not take place in my kitchen. >> you dip your finger? >> a spoon or a knife into the skippy. >> old school move i like it. first topic sweat therapy. you and your husband work out together, you go spinning and do the whole thing. >> um-hum. >> you say it's a good idea for couples to work out together. >> working out with your mate is better than regular therapy. >> why? look at chris, handsome devil. >> he looks great. >> because you're working out together, doing something together, start with that. you're sweating, you're getting aggression out. if you're angry before you went to the class, you will not be angry afterwards because you're tired. >> right. >> it's something do you together. my husband and i go on saturdays we have a long busy week, we can't go out during the week because we have kids, saturday morning is our day to be together. we don't talk. >> that's what i was going to

say. >> we rock out together. i race against him. what about you? >> do you win? >> always. because he lets me. >> no, i'm not against it. i see your point but i think working out is the time where you get the ipod on and you're just working through your own stuff. >> all the time? >> you're thinking and feeling the music, i spend a lot of time with my wife. apparently you don't hang out outside of spin class which is a deeper question. >> we need therapy. >> it's solo time. next topic, this is a big one, this is from twitter, should you invite a person to your event, say a wedding or birthday just because they invited you? what is the property etiquette on birthdays and weddings? >> this is a sensitive subject. i want to be included in every party and event but a friend told me you can't be invited to everything and i think weddings and birthday parties are intimate. invite who you want to invite. this is not a dress rehearsayar.

why invite the masses? your budget might be tighter, you might not have enough space so it's intimate and i'm talking about weddings, do you remember everyone that came to your wedding? was i invited? >> if you had to recast your wedding ten years later to are me it would be a different group but that's true -- >> i'd be a bridesmaid of course. >> i will say for kids' parties especially young kids, cast the wide net. you want all the kids you don't need that clique stuff happening early on. we have ours in central park, put a couple blankets down. >> couple pizza, the more the merrier. the class has to come for kids. >> look at our poll because we asked on today.com do you agree with megan or willie. 80/20 for team meg said no you do not have to invite someone to the party. congratulations on another overwhelming victory. >> i love winning. >> game on or war games, we're talking about electronic at the dinner table. you see it at a lot of restaurants, young kids while their parents are eating on the ipad.

is that okay? >> before i had kids i would say no. i'm going to talk to my kids, we'll play at the dinner table and have an intelligent conversation but the minute hudson popped out, ipad ready. i think you use it sparingly. you go into a restaurant and use it in a pinch when you're having a meltdown or something, i think it buys you some time. i think your mom and my mom would have thrown an ipad our way but they suffered. >> i can't disagree with you. you don't use it in your home at the dinner table but out in a public place you need to buy yourself 10, 15 minutes if they play a little sonic dash so be it. before we let you go, i understand there's some cupping. >> kevin menard, my dear friend and ac acupuncturist. >> i'm told i need to roll up my sleeve. what is cupping? >> cupping is an old school chinese technique that uses a glass jar to pull up stagnation from the body or what meg likes

to say, gook. >> willie has a lot of gook in his body. get it out. >> your forearm just like this. >> what is this? >> this is going to create a suction which is going to, see like if you're injured, muscle soreness or tightness, the more stagnation you have the we hadder or dark purpose it turns. >> you're turning purple. >> this is not too much. if you had a lot it would be dork purple. it's great for the shoulders, the back. i've had patients that had shoulder pain for 17 years and they've had cupping and it's gone. >> this isn't about vanity. it's therapeutic. clearly it's not about vanity. >> look at the hickey on your arm. >> you might have seen for the olympics the female chinese diving team had cupping marks down their backs and a lot of internet buzz about that. all good stuff. >> i have and i want to you be

healthy. >> megan, thank you. >> i'm here for you. >> cupping and seaweed. >> we're getting you clean. >> i don't know how i feel about that. what you're searching for on google, right after this.

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i like that title. >> thank you. >> these are the topics that got a lot of traffic over the weekend. >> think of getting the pulse of the internet over the weekend. we looked at friday night to sunday evening what are people interested in, trying to get context around, curious about. these are some of the topics we found. >> the aurora borealis? >> or the northern lights as it's more commonly known it happens when a solar flare comes out of the sun, the charged particles hit the atmosphere and create this amazing light show. it turns out there was one on thursday, a solar flare. over the weekend you could see it in places like pennsylvania, new york and new jersey, where you can't normally see the aurora borealis so people searching for the images to say i did see it because they want to know what it looks like. >> psy, mr. gangnam style releasing "gentleman." have you heard it? >> i have. >> so the next one people are looking forward to find it on youtube. >> most watched video on youtube

with more than 1.5 billion gangnam style. "gentleman" has the same theme and humor psy is known for. in less than 48 hours 55 million, who knows, it could be up to 100 million. >> there is no horses. >> but there is another dance, i don't know that it's got a name. kickalicious, a guy from norway impressing the detroit lions. >> another youtube obsession. he put together amazing kicks from all over the football field, you can see him with the left foot, kicking it on to a train track, car and boat. he got the attention of nfl teams including the detroit lions who signed him recently as one of their kickers. he tried out for the jets as well. cool story of getting a viral

video and a job. >> to the economy, gold and silver prices taking a dip, a lot of people searching for that. >> somewhat of a dramatic tumble. people were searching those over the weekend, figuring out where that's going to go. we saw kitco where you can buy and sell gold products. people are concerned wondering why this is happening. >> achilles tendon no surprise but add kobe bryant to the mix and that's no surprise. >> kobe bryant suffered this terrible injury. people wonder what does that mean to his career, when could he come back? six to nine months is the early time frame, it could be more than a year but a lot of people wondering what does this mean for the lakers as they try to get into the playoffs. lots of people concerned. >> and finally last but not least leonardo dicaprio, sorry, leonardo da vinci. >> it's his birthday. >> there's this new show called

"da vinci's demons." it's a combination, is this historically accurate? he's known for the mona lisa and drawing and anatomy and science but is this based on his life? a lot of people searching for him. 16th century to 21st century. >> leonardo extremely good looking. >> and action adventure hero. >> who knew? daniel sieberg thank you so much. >> my pleasure. still ahead, toys that will make you feel young again. all over. - the intense ache made it hard to do the things that i wanted. my doctor diagnosed it as fibromyalgia -- thought to be the result of over-active nerves that cause chronic, widespread pain. lyrica is believed to calm these nerves. i learned lyrica can provide significant relief from fibromyalgia pain. so now, i can do more of the things i enjoy. lyrica is not for everyone. it may cause serious allergic reactions or suicidal thoughts or actions. tell your doctor right away if you have these,

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started in 1800. >> 1890s. >> the pedal cart, so for kids as young as 3 but we've already seen the adults on here enjoying them. those are a lot of fun and when we go to the early 1900s we're looking at great classics so we have lincoln log and tinker toys. >> these are my kids' favorites still. >> great building sets then and now and interesting lincoln logs were made by john lloyd wright, son of frank the famous architect and they are named after president lincoln. >> interesting. 1950s, talking play-doh. interesting fact it was used to clean the soot off of wallpaper. >> clean the soot off of wallpaper and because it's so moldable it ended up in kids' hands. play-doh plus makes it nice and fun to decorate, push it down, your prevent sweets. >> there we go. how many of us made the looms?

>> pot holders, so another tidbit that was waste from stock production in the depression and by the '50s we saw the looms in every household. >> i can't remember how to do it but that was cool. spin-art. >> two of my favorite art toys, spirograph, all about the gears and the holes and we make cool designs and spin art, we turn this an, you can put the paint in here, you drop the paint in and make these great creations. >> i still love this. it's fun. as i get sucked into the spinner. the cabbage patch dolls and the '80s. >> who can forget the fan fair when they came out. they are just as loved today as they were 30 years ago. we have our celebration girl that will help us celebrate 30 years this holiday season. >> is she out just yet? >> she's not out but the rest of them are. >> soon. okay. >> smurfs. they're back. >> smurfs became popular in the

'80s because of the tv show. there will be a film this summer, we'll see them on the big screen "surfs 2" and kids can recreate their favorite villages and collect their favorite characters like smurfette and papa smurf. >> pacman. >> pacman, there's going to be a tv series and if you push him down this is the gooey packed in. >> that's disgusting. i am gross. okay, and power rangers? >> mighty morpher power rangers. >> they're back. >> you want to play? >> i don't think they ever went away actually. >> kids love to build with the mega zorgs and we have our new morpher. >> thank you very much. >> thanks. >> we're back in a moment. this is "today" on nbc.

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good morning to you. it is 9:56. i'm marla tellez. b.a.r.t. is officially closer to passing through silicon valley. drivers beware. this morning in san jose, a major construction project began on hoffsteader road. drivers can expect lane shifts as crews take out the median there. it's preparation work that will eventually allow b.a.r.t. trains to move in underground. the b.a.r.t. extension is expected to be completed by 2018. an 8-year-old boy is lucky to be alive this morning after his heart stopped after being hit by a pitch at a little league game. it happened in the north bay at rhonert park. he took five steps toward first base and collapsed. emergency paramedics rushed to help the boy and he went to the er. he was rushed to the hospital and is expected to be okay.

wind is the big weather headline today. lets take a look at that forecast with christina loren. >> thanks, marla. a pretty windy day, the jet stream over the bay area. pretty fierce wind over the coastline and higher elevations. a few showers on the breeze as well. about a 5 to 10% chance for that wind will be a factor not just for today but tonight as well. the advisory goes into effect. temperatures cool enough for a jacket. 63 in santa teresa, 62 down in gilroy. looking for one more day, got that as well. the end of the week and weekend 80s return. check that drive with mike. >> well, the 40s may be returning here for san mateo bridge. that's much better. over the last hour it's been really tough. we had a crash. we had lanes blocked. all lanes open for about 45 minutes. we do have a slow drive from the hayward side. the peninsula, not a problem. the approach off 880 no longer a real concern, slowing on the span near the toll plaza. 238 with some folks sticking

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tax day monday fun-day. glad you're with us, hope you had a wonderful weekend. a very happy birthday to my sister mish. >> who knew? >> there's my beautiful sister mish. >> so tax-day is her birthday? >> yes. >> and i have a friend named michael redmond, it's his birthday, i'll wish him well on the northern coast of -- washington state, i forget. >> did you do your taxes? >> i think so. somebody did. frank said we did. yes. >> i always get panicky around this time. because i got an email -- >> because all your stuff is at the bottom of your purse, you need to give it to somebody long before now. >> you know what i do have? under the bed -- a big tupperware where i dump everything in there and slide it under the bed. >> and then i pull it out. >> with the body of jay. >> he emailed me and said urgent. on friday, he emailed me,

urgent, need tax info asap, all caps. >> hoda, did you get an extension? >> that's what i'm doing today. >> oh my -- >> today's the extension day. >> i've known you five years, loved you that long. never oncevy known you to file on time. >> why don't i just do it on time? i like to know there's a few more months to go. down the road. >> you know what's the most depressing thing of all? is thinking about how long you have to work before you get to actually spend one penny of all the work that you have done. >> that's for the average person. for people like you who are multimillionaires, that's way, way, way -- you know where all of hoda's money is going now? to the dog walker. >> i had no idea. you better drink up, because you're about to get the first bill from the dog walker. >> this is a tax drink.

>> an apple martini. why -- >> it's, from the grant grill at the u.s. grant hotel in san diego. >> that's good. each one of these drinks costs $4.15 and it's the 15th of april to celebrate tax day. >> that will help you forget it's tax day, that's for sure. >> last night there's a broadway show that premiered called "motown." >> motown, the musical. >> it's like being at a concert. it's like you are watching -- >> motown great songs in it unbelievable. i think 56 or so. >> we went last night. >> the supremes, the temptations. >> marvin gaye. oh, my gosh. >> it's a party. it's a party. >> and by the way -- >> a lot of people came to the party last night. we went on the red carpet, me

and you -- the happy couple. >> yeah. >> holding hands, people are starting to talk. >> we're getting a little worried. there's diana ross. barry gordie, and barry gordie's son from fao. and there's smoky. and we saw diana and we said, it must be intermission. after what, it must be surreal i remember saying to her, watching -- she did come up on stage. we said miss ross, miss ross is what you call her. what was it like -- it must be surreal for you to watch your life being played out. she said, it is strange. >> they have quite the bit of history and a child together. everybody seems to have made peace with whatever their relationships were. >> well it's wild. >> amazing story of what barry

go gordy built. >> i looked around and saw stevie wonder and gladys knight and the commodores, it was wild, i think to look around and see them all there. >> it was an idea -- >> is that clive up there, too? >> no, that's gladys at the end. >> my eyes are going. i can't wait to have my cataracts done. but anyway we want to thank especially doug morris for our terrific seats and we really want to congratulate him and his beautiful wife, monique. doug is one of the most powerful men, probably the most powerful men in the music industry, we've been friends of his for a long time now. and i think they said they know they have it on in the playbill, three producers, but i, he put a lot of his own money into that thing. and it's got the biggest box office from broadway right now, too, so we're really, really happy for him. >> it's a party over at jenna bush hager's house. >> she had a baby! >> way to go. >> a baby girl, her name is margaret laura, and they're

calling her mila, it's henry's mom's name and her mom's name. so margaret laura. which is beautiful. >> six pounds, 15 ounces, 19 1/4 inches. >> and look at henry, he's so in love with his wife and his daughter. >> are they watching the masters? >> oh, my god! >> no, they're not. >> first-time grandparents. i wonder what the name was, if they had chosen, if it was going to be a boy. because they didn't know. >> we'll have to ask. >> anyway, we wish them all the best. i was thinking about her today. i think, your think your life changes with a dog? oh, my gosh how your life changes with a baby. >> i can't wait to see. she's going to be an awesome mom. let's talk about justin bieber. >> what are we going to do about the biebster. >> he went to the anne frank

museum. he stayed for an hour at the end there was a guest book so he wrote something in the guest book. this is what he wrote. truly inspiring to be able to come here, anne was a great girl, hopefully she would have been a belieber. >> hopefully she would have been a belieber. >> i don't think he meant anything disrespectful by it. it's symbolic of how young he is and how i think out of touch, completely out of touch. he can't even imagine the suffering of this young girl, along with six million other jews during the holocaust. i don't think he -- i don't think -- he realized. i think he thinks he's being nice. but he doesn't realize how, how it comes across to other people. >> he seems to keep stepping in it. >> he's had nothing but trouble since he's gone on the road,

right? >> we talked about that. ever since his mom, pattie has given over the reins because he's, making all that money and -- manager and -- manager is not there all the time and there are people around him, some people probably want the very best for him. but if he's like anybody else in this industry, there are those who just want to make the money and run and are not looking out for his best interests and i noticed a little of that, i told you when i was around him. i didn't like some of the stuff i saw and again -- i just hope somebody gets ahold of him like pattie is a great mom. and i hope he comes home on. because he needs, he has no sense of reality. how can you when you're 19 years old, the biggest pop star in the world? >> i could see where that could happen. he needs to have the right kind of people. >> he's a good kid and he's been taught right from wrong. hopefully he will come back to it. >> the mtv movie awards were weird. >> i didn't see them, you didn't

either. did you look online? >> i saw parts of it. there was kind of a kanye-ish moment. will ferrell was up getting an award he had the golden popcorn thing in his hand. >> that's the award? >> yes. and some girl named abby plaza from "parks and rec" was up on stage. take a look. >> thanks to mtv -- but i -- what's happening? are you okay? aubrey plaza, everyone. >> if you look, i don't know if we can get a shot of it. if you look on her chest, there's a hash tag or something that says, to do list. something that she wanted to do, i guess to -- >> in some ways, that was dumb.

>> it was awkward. it was awk-weird. some people thought it was, it was planned and it just went -- you know -- >> awry. as they say. >> or that she just -- by not saying anything -- it was very strange. i mean at least -- kanye, we knew what he was talking about. we kind of knew he was upset because beyonce didn't win. but i don't understand what she was angry about. the one thing -- she has accomplished that we now have heard her name. i never heard of her before. but i'm not sure what you ultimately want to be known for, you know. >> again, young and not thinking things through. >> let's talk about the cute guy who won the masters. oh, my god, adam scott. >> hodie -- i think she has left blake. >> the first australian golfer to ever win. we need an extreme close-up. close up on -- every guy we've

ever met from australia is -- hot. >> oh, all right, okay, okay. >> wow. wow. what's the story on him, hodie? >> he's 30-something, 32. >> that's a little young for you, but okay. >> he's so cute, could you die? look at him. and the other guy, who was the guy, cabrera? >> angel cabrera, who is very famous and has won the masters before. he looks like a guy you would see on the golf course any day. he gets up, it looks like he didn't think a minute to think about it. he's so good. thank god this guy won, right? >> all right. frank is just sits there in front of that, it isn't even on for the next four hours, but he watches the golf channel. he has to discuss everybody's putt, everybody's drive. everybody's choice of clubs. and i'm going -- what, i don't get it. it's a golf thing, i will never get it. we almost got divorced before we got married over golf. we really did.

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i interviewed bill in front of the camera that's the first time we met. >> was it instant with you guys, i never asked you that. >> on our second date we were making plans for six months in advance. which i had never done in my life. >> so i do think it is possible. especially with this show. because the girls come in, remember the guys were introduced here, right? >> yes, we had them on last week. >> there's going to be other shou shows the girls show up and they're seeing the guys for the first time. whereas here they know exactly what they're getting. i got to say tomorrow night's episode sin credible. and an ex comes back from the past. >> i hate it when that happens. >> we love it. >> drama. >> he's surprised and the other girls are surprised. the gloves come off tomorrow night. >> that's what we need, we need drama on -- >> blood on the floor. >> a few restraining orders before it's all said and done. >> are you having fun hosting it? >> we have a lot of fun. >> it was a little tough on me. because obviously she's been doing this a lot longer than i

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it is 10:26. good morning. i'm marla tellez. in about 30 minutes the parents of audrey pots are expected to speak publicly for the first time. audrie is the girl who killed herself after an alleged sexual assault. the family said she killed herself after photos of that assault were september by text message and e-mail to several students at her school, saratoga high school. their attorney says he's planning to file a wrongful death suit against the three 6-year-old boys who now face felony charges in this case. we will update you on the live news conference right here on nbc bay area at 11:00. after the break, we'll look at weather and traffic.

welcome back now. the time is 10:28. the winds are really starting to pick up. talk about winds and show you where the strongest gusts are coming in. right now sustained speeds are 15 miles per hour. we have really strong gusts, up to 52 in san francisco, up to 50 in point reyes, strongest so far mount diablo at 57. temperatures will be cool. keep that in mind. the full forecast today at 11:00. check your drive with mike. >> going to want to watch those winds be careful as you're watching the bay. some wind advisories have been

lifted. we have a wind advisory from the national weather service. a lot avoided san mateo bridge avoiding problems. there's the the span, going to watch the wind. gusty conditions will continue over the course of the morning. no major problems, nothing attributed to the wind over that span. see the camera shake. san mateo bridge moves smoothly, finally back to the normal commute slowing earlier from the crash. marla, back to you. >> mike, thanks so much. we hope to see you again at 11:00. . welcome back to "today" on this fun-day monday. time for today's buzz, we fill you in on all things celebrity gossip you may have missed over the weekend. >> matt damon renews his wedding vows and paris jackson opens up about his famous dad. here with all the buzz is tim stat, entertainment writer for

"entertainment weekly." >> the mtv awards, i know you were watching. what did you take away? >> i thought they were okay. you know, rebel wilson from "bridesmaids" hosted, i love her i think she was really funny. a lot of lady business jokes, jokes about the lady business, i don't know if i can say that on tv and lots of pubic hair jokes. but anyway, she performed. speaking of -- she performed with her pitch perfect cast. it's so good. and she opened it with a new song and -- it was good. the big winner was ton of awards. >> it seems like an adult -- >> exactly. i think the fact that jennifer lawrence was in it and bradley cooper and "the avengers" won a ton of awards, too. "silver linings playbook" won a

lot. mtv awards are not the oscars, but they're fun. >> listening to paris jackson speak out. it's interesting to hear from her, anyway. but tell us what she had to say. >> she seems like oddly normal. surprising. but michael jackson's daughter, paris, she gave an interview to the "daily mail" kind of just talking about her life right now. and she misses her father. he was an incredible father. and her plans for the future. she has a normal childhood, she's a cheerleader and she wants to be a heart surgeon. she was talking about being a model or something. >> when you should sort of take the time to find out what you want to be. and there's new controversy i read in the papers over the weekend that only one of the children, blanket is michael's actual biological child. >> good lord. she also said she wants to open up, reopen neverland ranch as a home for sick children. which just sounds like a horror

movie to me. the ghost of bubbles the chimp is going to be around. the poor kids with cancer are going to be like liz taylor paintings everywhere. >> but if it can be used for good. >> that's true. >> come on, tim, think it through. >> bad juju, good things did not happen at neverland. >> how do you know that? >> allegedly. allegedly. i'm sure it's a wonderful place to grow up. >> matt damon and his wife. they renewed their marriage vows. >> a lot of people renew their vows. >> did you and frank renew your vows? >> no need to. >> but yeah, matt damon and his wife renewed their vows, they never actually had a full ceremony. they never a full ceremony. they went down to st. louaint.a with a bunch of their friends and were frolicking on the beach

like rich people do. >> i was in my house watching the mtv awards. >> let's talk about the movies "42" is huge. >> one of those stories, so inspiring and jackie robinson is such a huge, hikiconic guy and though one has tackled that before. it's a movie that families can go see. but yeah, it's got a crazy audience score, the score was like an a-plus, it has good legs. >> two seconds to tell us, what do you think of the bieber thing with anne frank is that going to blow over? >> i feel like he's just kind of dumb. >> you're about to make up our minds. >> we're playing some fun brain games after this. [ lisa ] my name's lisa, and chantix helped me quit. i honestly loved smoking,

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reverse-engineer the brain, the brain is the most complicated object in the universe, but at the same time it's incredibly easy to fool. it has these shortcomes that can be exploited and this game we have these interactive experiments that do that to teach you about your brain. >> they say we only use a small percentage of our brain. >> we use all of our brains, we don't use it well. but we use all of our brain. >> what does mr. deception have to do with the whole game? >> i do like hacking the mind, there's a lot of false assumptions we make every day. i take advantage of that in a visual way, whether it be stealing something from you, or kind of showing you why critical thinking is pong important. >> what is the show? >> the star of the show is your brain we have these carefully designed interactive experiments, we call it lean-in programming. the brain experts, these cognitive experts design these games, illusions can you play at home as you watch and you're like wow, you want to understand what just happened. >> it's interesting, two of you at home watching it. a husband and wife, boyfriend, girlfriend, family. each one of you will have a different experience of the

games because your brains are wired differently. my wife is really good at this, i'm not good at that. it gives awe chance to participate, interactive tv. >> what if you're one of those people who doesn't do well at all the entire time. isn't there a danger that you'll come away thinking i'm an idiot. >> the games you'll do not so well because they're designed to show your brain's own shortcomes. >> we dot show to do that. >> when you find out what you don't know it gives you an advantage. >> you're supposed to count the footballs, all right? this is an example. >> i, what? try to count them. >> right. >> 28. >> 30. >> you're both wrong but you're pretty close. >> the answer was actually revealed on the screen in text. >> it was? >> an example of inattention blindness. >> where was it? >> just right there.

>> stop counting. there are 27 footballs. >> your eye is on the footballs, that's what you told us to do. >> by pushing your attention in one direction. >> here, come on this side, it wasn't implied. >> and i want to you keep your jewelry. so you'll be safer over here. >> i was going to ask you to put your cards down so you have your hands available. your attention is drawn to something like this, this becomes the priority. close your hand around it. would you be surprised if i could take it out of your hands? >> i would be totally shocked. that would be the easy way. use your hand, but squeeze my wrist, squeeze. see your attention is split between two places, but your high-resolution view of your attention is very small and you can't see where it actually is. >> where is it? >> while she's looking here, she doesn't know it's sitting on her shoulder. >> pick it up.

>> try your hand. use your hand a little bit higher, you can see it almost at home how this works, it's not here because it's back on her shoulder again. >> one more time. i'll use both your hands. >> put your hand on top. if you watch it -- here you can also see the space. now right there out of your mind is making assumptions about where you go, it's here, isn't it? >> you're so sharp. the fact that it's here, it falls back in the palm of your hand. it is on the head like you said. it's the motion that draws your attention. >> that's what these guys have been doing in their magic tricks forever. >> you're going to try this. this is out of the box thinking, you want to connect all the brains together. with three straight lines. three straight lines. and again, the clue -- >> i don't know what you mean. >> link them all together using only three straight lines.

>> how can you -- >> think out of the box. >> one was a little bit curved for the straight line. >> you were letly out of the box. notice, it's so important. most people will stay within the boundaries. outside of the boundaries, it makes sense. >> outside your comfort zone. >> we try to play by the rules. >> all right. so we actually, so you guys. >> you're going to read the sign. that's all you're going to do. just read this sign. >> new york in the spring. >> new york in the the spring. >> most people will read that like ten times and not catch it.

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and we're back now with look at me now, the joy fit club. the newest member is 27-year-old candace williams. >> like a lot of people, she struggled with weight for much of her life and now is down a whopping 280 pounds. let's take a look at her story. >> hi, my name is candace. since i can remember, i've always had issues with my weight. growing up, i was bigger than most kids in school and i was bullied and teased every day. i felt like an outsider among my classmates and refused to even be pictured in my high school year book. i tried losing weight with weight watchers and would only gain it back. i wasn't mentally ready to separate hunger from my emotions. what caused my light bulb to go off? in 2009 i was required to do a health assessment for my job. i was so heavy the scale couldn't calculate my weight at 460 pounds. i was beyond embarrassed, mortified and ashamed. the pain i felt that day was worse than the teasing and

bullying i had suffered throughout my life. i went home that day, i ate, i cried and i ate some more. i went back to wait watchers and lost my first 100 pounds just by eating better. i added exercise into my life and not only did my body change, but my outlook on life did, too. it is a hard road to lose weight but it's not impossible. today i'm 280 pounds lighter and i live by the motto, eat less, move more and create no excuses. >> wow. it looks like she does have a lot of supportive friends. before we meet her, let's talk to joy. >> as we see, this is a really, really special young lady and in the midst of being a full-time student and taking care of her mom and sister who have health issues, she has lost more than the two of you put together. so how did she do this? it was overwhelming for her to look at the big picture. so instead she made mini meals. every mini goals, every single

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i'm marla tellez. >> i'm jon kelley. breaking news going on in the south bay as we're expecting the family of audrey poie pott to s any moment. >> she's the 15-year-old girl who killed herself after an alleged sexual assault.

the pott family attorney said she killed herself after photos of that assault were sent by text message and e-mail to several students at her school, saratoga high school. >> right now lets go live to nbc bay area's bob redell in san jose where audrie's parents are set to address the media. bob, good morning. >> good morning to you, jon and marla. they scheduled this news conference for 1 1:00 a.m. we could see them walk up to the podium with their attorney. you can take a live look inside the conference room where the family set up a paper wall of well wishes written by classmates at saratoga high. there's two photos of the 15-year-old girl. that's important to know. we normally would not identify or show the picture of a victim of a sexual assault. in this case her parents have requested this because they want to get the word out on what happened to their daughter and ultimately push for audrie's law, tougher legislation against cyber bullying and sexual

assault they would like to see passed at both the state and federal level. this morning the family will announce they will also be filing a wrongful death lawsuit against the three 16-year-old boys who they believe humiliated audrie into killing herself this past september. eight days prior to the suicide, the boys, who happened to be her friends, allegedly sexually assaulted her after she drank alcohol and fell asleep at a labor day party. they then allegedly texted and e-mailed explicit pictures of that attack to several classmates. the teens have been held at the juvenile detention center in san jose every since their arrest by santa clara county sheriff's office. on friday their attorneys released this statement and i'm quoting here. "much of what has been reported over the last several days is inaccurate. most disturbing is the attempt to link audrie's suicide to the specific actions of these three boys. we are hopeful that everyone understands these boys, none of whom have ever been in trouble